"Succession Season 4: Power Struggles and Emotional Eating"

Tom Wambsgans, the perpetually odd man out among the top of the Waystar Royco food chain in HBO's Succession, uses food and drink to convey his headspace. Actor Matthew Macfadyen sells Tom's identity with his flat "uh huh" line deliveries, his shrugging shoulders, and the occasional outburst of incandescent, office-furniture-destroying fury. Tom's willingness to indulge in a nosh makes him only more of an outsider, and it provides Macfadyen with opportunities to reflect Tom's humanity and occasionally to project Tom's discomfort through the food-based torment of others, usually Cousin Greg.